{"id":118,"count":1,"description":"Imara, whose work has won Emmy and Peabody Awards, is the Founder and CEO\u00a0 of\u00a0<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/translash.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/translash.org\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">TransLash<\/a>\u00a0Media, a cross-platform, non-profit journalism and narrative organization, which produces content to shift the current culture of hostility towards transgender people in the US. She was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People on the planet in 2023. As part of her work at TransLash, Imara hosts the\u00a0 TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones, which\u00a0 received the 2023 Outstanding Podcast Award from GLAAD ; as well as the investigative, limited series, The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: A Plot Against Equality which received the Excellence in Podcasting Award from the National LGBTQ+ Journalists Association and a WEBBY Honor. Additionally Imara has served as Executive Producer for TransLash\u2019s\u00a0 award-winning films, documentaries and animated shorts in partnership with mainstream outlets like PBS. She also is Editor-in-Chief of the TransLash Wire, the organization\u2019s written journalism platform. Imara is also the first trans person to ever receive an award from the National Black Journalists Association, having garnered the Journalist of Distinction Award in 2022. Also in 2022,\u00a0<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2022\/influential-people-on-race-and-politics-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2022\/influential-people-on-race-and-politics-list\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">Politico<\/a>\u00a0named her as one of the 40 power players at the intersection of race, politics, and policy in the United States. In 2020 Imara was featured on the cover of<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5880964\/imara-jones-black-trans-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5880964\/imara-jones-black-trans-women\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">\u00a0Time<\/a>\u00a0Magazine as part of its New American Revolution special edition.\u00a0 In 2019 she chaired the first-ever<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/en\/news\/stories\/2019\/7\/news-event-gender-diversity-and-non-binary-identities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"http:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/en\/news\/stories\/2019\/7\/news-event-gender-diversity-and-non-binary-identities\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">\u00a0UN High Level Meeting on Gender Diversity<\/a>\u00a0with over 600 participants. Imara has been featured regularly in The Guardian, The Nation, MSNBC, CNBC, NPR, Fast Company and GQ. Imara is a 2021 Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow and a\u00a0 2019<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.opensocietyfoundations.org\/newsroom\/open-society-foundations-announce-2019-soros-equality-fellows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.opensocietyfoundations.org\/newsroom\/open-society-foundations-announce-2019-soros-equality-fellows\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">\u00a0Soros Equality Fellow<\/a>.\u00a0 She serves on the New York City Commission on Gender Equity. She also Vice-Chair of GLSEN\u2019s Board and is the former Chair of the Board of the<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/transgenderlawcenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/transgenderlawcenter.org\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">\u00a0Transgender Law Center<\/a>, the nation\u2019s largest transgender non-profit organization. Imara is also on the boards of the<a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thelgbtqplusmuseum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/thelgbtqplusmuseum.org\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\">\u00a0LGBTQ+ Museum<\/a>\u00a0and the New Pride Agenda.","link":"https:\/\/translash.org\/authors\/imara-jones\/","name":"Imara Jones","slug":"imara-jones","taxonomy":"post-author","meta":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Imara Jones Archives - TransLash Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/translash.org\/authors\/imara-jones\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Imara Jones Archives - TransLash Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Imara, whose work has won Emmy and Peabody Awards, is the Founder and CEO\u00a0 of\u00a0TransLash\u00a0Media, a cross-platform, non-profit journalism and narrative organization, which produces content to shift the current culture of hostility towards transgender people in the US. 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